Two men were killed and seven others were injured during a riot at Eagle Mountain Community Correctional Facility in Riverside County, Calif.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department said Sunday that the riot occurred shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday night.
Deputies reported that one man died at the prison and the other man died at John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio.
The other injured inmates were taken to JFK, Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs and Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, according to the sheriff's department.
Deputies said the riot started with an altercation between a group of white and Hispanic inmates who reportedly attacked a group of black inmates at the facility.
The names of the two dead men have not been release pending notification of their families. Autopsies have been scheduled for this week on the bodies of the two inmates